Settings vary by author, most notable of the greats is Poe. However a new addition to this pantheon should be made, his name is Stephen King. Everything played a part in the story Pet Cemetary. The detail in the cemetary it's self was awsome wirth the description of the almost perfect circles of grave , the wind fall of trees hiding the path to the place of true horrors.
Desperation
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Gunslinger
Rose Madder